Joel Raha Joins As Senior Vice President Of Engineering; Brings Years Of Experience Building And Scaling Data Platforms

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - June 16, 2017) - 7Park Data, the technology company powering data-driven decisionmaking at businesses around the world, today announced the expansion of its technology leadership team with the hiring of Joel Raha as Senior Vice President of Engineering. Raha will lead development of the 7Park Data technology platform and will oversee the company's platform, data and API engineers.

Raha brings years of experience leading engineering efforts at growth-stage technology startups. Raha spent nine years leading engineering at HookLogic (acquired by Criteo in 2016), where he was its first employee and played a pivotal role in scaling the company's data platform and establishing its cloud strategy. Most recently, at Fareportal, which employs more than 3,500 people, Raha oversaw multiple engineering divisions and more than one hundred globally-distributed engineers. He studied computer engineering at Cornell University and earned his Master of Technology Management degree from Columbia University.

"To successfully execute our platform vision 7Park Data requires technology leaders with proven experience building innovative products and services," said Brian Lichtenberger, cofounder and CEO, 7Park Data. "Joel brings deep domain experience building technology products and a proven track record of building and leading engineering teams. With an extensive understanding of APIs, high computational systems, and large volume data pipelines, Joel is uniquely qualified to lead our technology efforts and is a fantastic addition to our senior team."

Raha joins at a time of rapid expansion of the 7Park Data platform, which ingests, validates, and cleanses more than 500 terabytes of data per month. The platform leverages 7Park Data's deep portfolio of metadata and proprietary models to enrich raw data with contextual values, and delivers industry-leading benchmarking products via data reports, feeds, and APIs.

About 7Park Data

Powered by real-time behavioral data from more than one billion global consumers, 7Park Data is the trusted source of consumer and business insight for industry-leading global businesses. Our proprietary insights platform contextualizes anonymous viewing, mobile, web and purchasing data -- collected in real-time from more than one billion consumers from more than 100 countries -- with in-house expert analysis to deliver unprecedented clarity into marketplace trends, evolving customer preferences, and investment opportunities. Data-driven businesses depend on 7Park Data intelligence for more accurate benchmarking, forecasting, and strategic decision making. 7Park Data was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York City. For more information, please visit www.7parkdata.com.